Experiencing the New Windows® 7 Search
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Looking for file for a long time. Have spend many hours in searching for the desired content on your computer, but did not find it. Saved a file at some location on hard disk and had trouble in finding it. These are some of the search related issues which you might have faced. Such issues are generally observed when the hard disk of your computer is highly occupied with a lot of applications and files which can be seen on your desktop and hard disk partitions. Windows operating system accompanies the search tool for searching all the required files and other documents. With the advent of new Windows 7 operating system, it is believed that this edition of Windows operating system provides faster and better searching.
Windows 7 Search Tool
The search tool has been modified in the new Windows 7 operating system and is known as Windows 7 search. The enhanced Windows 7 search tool offers searching in a shorter time span. Accessing this tool in the New Windows 7 is as simple as clicking on the start menu, followed by typing your search entry. The moment you enter the search entry which can be either the name of a program, folder, or a file, you will be spontaneously provided with the result. The search result will be displaying all the related search entries. You can see some categories also in the search results. In case you are unable to find the searched item, you can look for it in the categories visible.
Sometimes even when knowing about the name of the search item, you are unable to identify it, because of the large number related search results. then you can try using a concept of search filter introduced in the new Windows 7 search. The search filters providesa prominent way to make a more deatiled search for the particular item. You can access the search filter in the Windows 7 operating system by cliking in the search box followed by selecting the search filter. The search filters in the Windows 7 search narrows down the search results to a greater extent. You can make use of more than one search filter at the same time. It will further refine the search result to find the particular content you are looking for. Some of the search filters are like the type of file, datetaken, date created, size of the file, author of the file, name of the file and so on.
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Now tell me how to find all the files in a directory that start with a certain character combination, like searching with wildcards. eg. “test*”
The asterisk ( * )
The asterisk represents any number of unknown characters. Use it when searching for documents or files for which you have only partial names.
For example, if you enter cheese* as your search term, the search might return these items: cheese cheesecake cheesedip.txt
The question mark ( ? )
The question mark represents only one unknown character. Use it when you have a list of files with very similar names, or when you are unsure of a few characters.
For example, if you enter take?.txt as your search term, the search might return these files: take1.txt taken.txt take2.txt
However, it would not find take12.txt because the question mark only covers one character. To find two unknown characters, enter take??.txt as your search term.
Combining * and ?
You can use the asterisk ( * ) and the question mark ( ? ) anywhere in a search, and you can also use them together. For example, if you want to find all the files that start with home, followed by one or two characters, and ending with any extension, enter home??.* as your search term. Your search might return home45.bak or homer4.txt, but not homeloan.doc.